The AZFc region of the Y chromosome: at the crossroads between genetic diversity and male infertility

Isodicentric Y Chromosomes and Sex Disorders as Byproducts of Homologous Recombination that Maintains Palindromes

(2009) Julian Lange et al.   CELL

Copy number variation on the human Y chromosome

(2009) M.A. Jobling   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Gene conversion causing human inherited disease: Evidence for involvement of non-B-DNA-forming sequences and recombination-promoting motifs in DNA breakage and repair

(2009) Nadia Chuzhanova et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

Polymorphic expression of DAZ proteins in the human testis

(2009) Byunghyuk Kim et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Y chromosome gr/gr deletions are a risk factor for low semen quality

(2009) L. Visser et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Human DAZL, DAZ and BOULE genes modulate primordial germ-cell and haploid gamete formation

(2009) Kehkooi Kee et al.   NATURE

Unique Signatures of Natural Background Radiation on Human Y Chromosomes from Kerala, India

(2009) Sanjay Premi et al.   PLoS One

The Y chromosome and male infertility

(2008) Hossein Sadeghi-Nejad et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN UROLOGY

Y-chromosome AZFc structural architecture and relationship to male fertility

(2008) Celia Ravel et al.   FERTILITY AND STERILITY

Ectopic gene conversions in the human genome

(2008) David Benovoy et al.   GENOMICS

Partial AZFc deletions and duplications: clinical correlates in the Italian population

(2008) Claudia Giachini et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

The b2/b3 subdeletion shows higher risk of spermatogenic failure and higher frequency of complete AZFc deletion than the gr/gr subdeletion in a Chinese population

(2008) C. Lu et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Dynamic nature of the proximalAZFcregion of the human Y chromosome: multiple independent deletion and duplication events revealed by microsatellite analysis

(2008) Patricia Balaresque et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

Restricted expression of the human DAZ protein in premeiotic germ cells

(2008) W. J. Huang et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Y chromosome haplogroups may confer susceptibility to partial AZFc deletions and deletion effect on spermatogenesis impairment

(2008) Yuan Yang et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Do we need to search for gr/gr deletions in infertile men in a clinical setting?

(2008) K. Stouffs et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Sons conceived by assisted reproduction techniques inherit deletions in the azoospermia factor (AZF) region of the Y chromosome and the DAZ gene copy number

(2008) C. Mau Kai et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

The AZF proteins

(2008) P. H. Vogt et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY

An evolutionary perspective on Y-chromosomal variation and male infertility

(2008) Chris Tyler-Smith   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY

Identification of new breakpoints in AZFb and AZFc

(2008) Paula Costa et al.   MOLECULAR HUMAN REPRODUCTION

A mechanism for DNA-PK activation requiring unique contributions from each strand of a DNA terminus and implications for microhomology-mediated nonhomologous DNA end joining

(2008) Katherine S. Pawelczak et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Double-strand breaks associated with repetitive DNA can reshape the genome

(2008) J. L. Argueso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MMEJ repair of double-strand breaks (director’s cut): deleted sequences and alternative endings

(2008) Mitch McVey et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Massive deletion inAZFb/b+cand azoospermia with Sertoli cell only and/or maturation arrest

(2007) Y. Yang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY

A Frequent Partial AZFc Deletion does not Render an Increased Risk of Spermatogenic Impairment in East Asians

(2005) F. Zhang et al.   ANNALS OF HUMAN GENETICS